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Refractions of the national, the popular and the global in African cities /
"Case studies of metropolitan cities in nine African countries - from Egypt in the north to three in West and Central Africa, two in East Africa and three in Southern Africa - make up the empirical foundation of this publication. The interrelated themes addressed in these chapters - the nationa...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cape Town, South Africa :
African Minds,
2021.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface / Göran Therborn
- Introduction / Simon Bekker, Sylvia Croese and Edgar Pieterse
- Part I. The national in urban Africa. National projects in a postcolonial capital city : The example of Yaoundé / Jean-Pierre Togolo ; Lip service : How voices from informal settlements were sidelined during the first decade of local democracy in South Africa / Liela Groenewald ; Centralised urban governance in the Greater Cairo City Region : A critical understanding of key challenges and responses / Amr Abdelaal, Hajer Awatta, Omar Nagati, Salwa Salman and Marwa Shykhon ; Traditional chiefs and traditional authority in Kinshasa / Philippe Ibaka Sangu
- Part II. The popular in urban Africa. Local government as the stage for resistance : Strategies and tactics of opposing mega projects in Gauteng / Margot Rubin ; Popular protests and the limits of civil society in the struggle for democracy in Zimbabwe, 2011 to 2016 / Ngonidzashe Marongwe ; 'We will be back to the street!' : Protest and the 'empires' of water in Nairobi / Wangui Kimari
- Part III. The global in urban Africa. Africa's new Dubai? Intersections between the global and the local in the redevelopment of the Bay of Luanda, Angola / Sylvia Croese ; Urban governance and smart future cities in Nigeria : Lagos flagship projects as springboard? / Muyiwa Elijah Agunbiade, Oluwafemi Olajide and Hakeem Bishi ; The governance of Addis Ababa Light Rail Transit / Meseret Kassahun ; Conclusion : African cities in the world of today and tomorrow / Göran Therborn and Alan Mabin.